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‘Bosanquet made his entrance as a writer on philosophy in 1882–3, when he published two articles in the journal Mind, to which he thereafter became a regular contributor. He also joined the Aristotelian Society in 1886, and became not merely a frequent contributor to its Proceedings, but also its vice-president in 1888 and its president from 1894 to 1898. His interest in logic had been inspired, as he handsomely acknowledged, by the writings of his contemporary Francis Herbert Bradley. Bradley’s Ethical Studies had been published in 1876 and his Principles of Logic appeared in 1883. Bosanquet declared himself ‘blown to the winds’ by the quality of the first book; but his response to the second was mixed—he found much to agree with but a deal to disturb him in Bradley’s outlook—and he wrote an appreciative but critical study, published in 1885 under the title Knowledge and Reality. This was the prelude to his full-scale work Logic, which appeared in 1888. Bradley acknowledged the force of some of Bosanquet’s criticism. The two philosophers, although not intimate friends or collaborators, established a mutual regard for each other’s work. Bosanquet was the more orthodox in his respect for the teachings of the German philosophers Hegel, Lotze, and Sigwart, Bradley more wayward and independent’ (ODNB).